So did I. Momentarily painful to get rid of something you’ve had for a long time and invested a lot of time in (27k+ posts since 2018 for me) but I feel much better now for leaving that toxic environment.
Since Musk took over, engagements with other users were well down compared to before anyway…🤷♂️
I put mine on private but I cant yet convince myself to delete it just because I get a lot of benefit from it for sports. I follow 908 people over there and 90-95% of that is sports. The convos during big games is great. That has not come over to this site yet.
That is what I am looking at. Primarily deleting every post I have ever made. I'm going to see if one of the many sites that claim to help do that work once I'm sent my data archive from twitter. I do like the sports aspect too much. I can converse here.
Is there a reliable way to mass delete over on the other site? I like some of the groups there that I haven’t yet found here (in the past two hours, so… maybe patience is key).
There are sites that claim they can but you need to download your data archive for it to happen. It can take a couple days for Twitter to send it to you
I saw two articles about deleting a xitter account. One was Business Insider; the other was Gizmodo: “The Joys and Perils of Leaving … X for Bluesky”. One of those two articles talked about how to download your archive. There’s a company called “Tweet Delete” that will scrub old posts (fee).
I am nearing the end of a 3rd suspension in a year tomorrow. Due to his stupid bot moderators not computing satire and accusing me of breaking rules on violence. I reinstated my basic plan a few months ago. More fool me. As soon as I am out of jail I am cancelling it. Fvck Space Karen.
Didn't deactivate (so as to keep it as a zombie account taking up space) so still technically following you there, but did purge all tweets and won't be visiting again.
i've not fully deactivated, but i did lock down my account this morning. once i get the twitter data i requested i don't plan on logging in ever again.
Even before the election it was too much of a cesspool. I'd rather have a smaller, more intimate community to discuss topics with than a wide open field of lunatics.
So, is there any reason not to leave the account sitting there but stay away? I'd like to keep my identity and history there, and keep the option to return if, somehow, things ever change (i.e. new owner). Am I making Elon any $ if I don't view anything? Would my account be deleted for inactivity?
Installed appblocker for all social media and websites mentioning election and Trump. The media did this to us for engagement numbers. Now they get my apathy. I will limit myself to less than an hour while I detox before deleting it all. The only thing caring online has done is waste my life.
Everyone's posting this, and I'm just wondering whether that mostly reflects real folks, or just winding down the bot farms now that it's Mission Accomplished?
Mine is gone. If one needs to share a link, use https://xcancel.com , in short type 'cancel' after the X in any link and it will display a mirror of the tweet, not giving it any clicks or other traffic.
Deactivated last night. I was not a huge poster there. Will miss some of the cat accounts. I had not even updated that app since the change over and had one of my kids make the app photo the Twitter logo to avoid the X.
Haven't used Bluesky in a long time, but today's the day. Purging 90% of people I'm following on Twitter down to core people I interact with until I've said proper goodbyes and/or met up with them here, then I'm out.
Yeah, I canceled my subscription and deactivated account. Disappointed the option did not specify it would “Delete” my entire account history, a bit vague verbiage with “deactivate” lol, gaaah
I’m about 1/2 of the way through @en.blueark.app processing my import/transfer of tweets. After that completes, nuking Twitter history and closing down. Have had acct since 2009 so a whole lotta time needed to execute move.
Looks like it’s working well. Just got alike here on Bluesky for a ComicCon tweet back in 2022. 🎉 Now the more difficult export data file part once this first part finishes and you all are ready to go.
That was pretty easy. Sad to see how the place has been going but I just don't get the same value. Now that I've found some of those old useful users here, just seems like time.
I'm hanging on to my Twitter account for now, because I want to have a platform to troll people who voted to release the hungry leopards when they start whining about how they're being chased by hungry leopards.
I'm happy to see an exodus from Twitter, but I don't understand why it's happening today. Are these people who had already decided to quit, but they stuck it out until after the election?
I stayed to help boost deserving politicians, even though I only have a small account there. I need to go through my follows and DM some of them to see if they're moving and where. After that I'll deactivate my account, which is supposed to be deleted irretrievably after 30 days.
oh im sure - but i was kind of joking but there are ppl i follow and they are all losing 10k followers overnight so probably a little bit of truth that the russian trolls just shut down their farms
yeah, the being able to see anything without an account and occasionally i find something i want to read but it is only posted there, plus there is one account belonging to a person I am a fan of. I otherwise don't use it.
Would be nice to have a service that I could just view the tweets by specific accounts and nothing else. Not even retweets or quote tweets, just posts.
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It felt amazing. 💙
Since Musk took over, engagements with other users were well down compared to before anyway…🤷♂️
You're welcome?
ie clicking https://xcancel.com/elonmusk does not contribute to views or advertiser stats
...until they all come here, then I'll finish the job.
No content for fascists or enablers. (Yes, redundant.)
I'm one of the Rampaging Deactivists... leaving the whirling excrement of Xitter.
That hellsite can go sink with the cryptobots, n@zis, and other assorted scum.
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2nd Best decision I've made today. 🖤
I was trying to mirror. This morning I just kinda said fvck it... 😂
Had planned to do it soon but not looked up the best way to make sure it was deleted and not still there for AI scraping.
Today just seemed like the time. Fuck Elon. 🤷♂️
Hit them all in the pocketbook. Shop local.
I just nuked the Alexas and Prime, along with Audible and music. 🤷♀️
Ain't my 1st go-'round.
(Never thought I'd say that.)
If not for the fact you can't see anything without an account, I definitely would have fully nuked mine today.
Once my photos are safely backed up Facebook is next
More (the 3 dots at the end of the menu on the front page)-->settings and privacy-->your account-->download an archive of your data
Not sure if it takes bookmarks
I didn't even bother.
What a waste...
Bad.